CEDAW For Change -1 Week Intensive Institute

Facilitators: Alda Facio and Martha Morgan, with Angela Lytle

The CEDAW for change course is held at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) at the Ontario Institute for the Studies in Education at the University of Toronto

June 3-7, 2013 ( held within the WHRI program)

 This one-week women’s human rights education institute is designed to cultivate a better understanding of the principles of non discrimination and equality as enshrined in CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women) and each State’s obligation to respect, protect and fulfill women’s human rights. Participants will be helped to frame whatever issues they are working on within a human rights framework from a gender perspective.  This course is held within the WHRI six week program)

This session stresses the multiplicity of forms of discrimination women from diverse situations experience. During the week we will learn through activities focused around identity and interconnectedness, the complex nature of discrimination, the impact of culture and religion on women’s rights, and activism against discrimination.  We will examine case studies that have come before the CEDAW committee and will explore ways in which CEDAW can be used to support local and national level activism through the submission of Shadow Reports by NGOs and through the CEDAW Optional Protocol.

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New!   CEDAW Week for Indigenous Women

A project of the Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu, in conjunction with the Women’s Human Rights Education Institutes

Facilitators:  Alda Facio, with Wayunkerra Epinayu (Karmen Ramirez Boscan), Anya Victoria & Denisse Temin

September 23-30, 2012

We are very pleased to announce our collaboration with the Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu to offer the first CEDAW Week for Indigenous Women.   The CEDAW WIW will be held from September 23-30, 2012, in the ancestral lands of the Wayuu, in La Guajira, Colombia.  Participation is limited to Spanish-speaking women belonging to an indigenous group or nation, although applications from allies working to support indigenious women’s human rights may be considered.

For more information, please visit the blog or contact Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu directly at this email address:  fuerzamujereswayuu@gmail.com